Twin Rivers, UCMP A3683 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clallam County, Washington (48.2° N, 123.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 115.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Twin Rivers Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Durham. 1944. Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27:101 -212 [P. Holroyd/E. Orzechowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 208153: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Oxystele dorni n. sp. Durham 1944 top snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
? Yoldia blakeleyensis n. sp. Durham 1944 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Acila gettysburgensis" = Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis
"Acila gettysburgensis" = Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis Regan 1909 divaricate nutclam